Story of a sailor's body washed onto the shore of a Western Isle (fragment)

Date recorded: August 31, 1951
Contributor(s): Performer: Reverend Duncan; Recordist: Lomax, Alan

Subject(s):

Genre: spoken, story

Culture: Lowland Scotland, Scottish

Instruments: voice

Setting: The Ceilidh of the People's Festival Fringe, Oddfellows Hall

Location: Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

Physical form: Reel to Reel

Tape number: T3431

Track Number: 10

Archive ID: T3431R10

Note: The tape cuts out in the middle of the story. In his preceding commentary, Reverend Duncan (his first name is unidentified) says that the story is in praise of the Gaelic language.

Transcript:
Belongs to: Edinburgh 8/51

About the session: Recordings from the first People's Festival Ceilidh, part of the 1951 Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Ballads and songs sung by Jimmy MacBeath, John Strachan, Jessie Murray, and Blanche Wood; Gaelic pieces by Calum Johnson and Flora MacNeil; piping by John Burgess; MC'd by Hamish Henderson.

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